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Pluto Could Lose Planet Status
PhysOrg.com ^ | 21 June 2006 | Staff

Posted on 06/22/2006 4:11:12 AM PDT by PatrickHenry

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Uranus seems secure.

In other Plutonian news: Pluto's newest moons get names: Nix, Hydra.

1 posted on 06/22/2006 4:11:13 AM PDT by PatrickHenry
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2 posted on 06/22/2006 4:12:20 AM PDT by PatrickHenry (Unresponsive to trolls, lunatics, fanatics, retards, scolds, & incurable ignoramuses.)
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To: PatrickHenry

It's good to start the day with a laugh. Thanks.


3 posted on 06/22/2006 4:12:57 AM PDT by goarmy (Zarqawi's OH SH*T moment lasted 52 minutes)
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To: PatrickHenry

This is the work of the big corporations always picking on the little people and the little planets. Somebody call the ACLU.


4 posted on 06/22/2006 4:13:58 AM PDT by samtheman
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To: PatrickHenry

They should kick Uranus out.


5 posted on 06/22/2006 4:14:04 AM PDT by DainBramage
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To: PatrickHenry

This is what has been keeping me up at night. I hope they resolve it soon.


6 posted on 06/22/2006 4:15:06 AM PDT by croak
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You can't just make a guy part of the family then all of the sudden revoke his planet status. It ain't right. I'm with you Pluto, to hell with what they say.


7 posted on 06/22/2006 4:15:47 AM PDT by Jaysun (I from a little place called Smithereens. It ain't pretty out here.)
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To: PatrickHenry

The Solar System's planets can end at Neptune, as it (currently) is the farthestmost planet that is generally in the same plane as the other planets.


8 posted on 06/22/2006 4:18:37 AM PDT by Jedi Master Pikachu ( www.answersingenesis.org)
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To: PatrickHenry

Relegated to junk-planet status.


9 posted on 06/22/2006 4:19:28 AM PDT by johnny7 (“And what's Fonzie like? Come on Yolanda... what's Fonzie like?!”)
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To: DainBramage
They should kick Uranus out.

hehehehehe

heheheheheheh

hehehehehehehe

10 posted on 06/22/2006 4:20:21 AM PDT by JusPasenThru (Democrats have bad karma.)
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To: PatrickHenry

I'm rooting for official status to Planet Xena and Moon Gabrielle.


11 posted on 06/22/2006 4:22:14 AM PDT by tlb
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This is outrageious. First they kick Taiwan out of the UN, then they kick Pluto out of the solar system. What's next? Are we going to rename Earth and start calling it something stupid like "the Planet"? Citizens of the Solar System unite and Save Pluto Now!!


12 posted on 06/22/2006 4:24:11 AM PDT by rhombus
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space ping.


13 posted on 06/22/2006 4:25:05 AM PDT by Jedi Master Pikachu ( www.answersingenesis.org)
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To: PatrickHenry

I think my third grade teacher owes me better grade on that science test!


14 posted on 06/22/2006 4:25:07 AM PDT by VRWCtaz (Conservatism is about promoting opportunity and Liberalism is about controlling outcome.)
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To: PatrickHenry
relegated to star status.
15 posted on 06/22/2006 4:25:34 AM PDT by Vaquero ("An armed society is a polite society" Robert A. Heinlein)
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To: rhombus

Actually, they just swapped the Republic of China for the People's Republic of China, though today Taiwan is for the large part a de facto country.


16 posted on 06/22/2006 4:27:19 AM PDT by Jedi Master Pikachu ( www.answersingenesis.org)
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Darn it,

"Interplanet Janet" of Schoolhouse Rock fame has become obsolete!!


17 posted on 06/22/2006 4:30:53 AM PDT by GatorGirl
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To: Jedi Master Pikachu
Actually, they just swapped the Republic of China for the People's Republic of China, though today Taiwan is for the large part a de facto country.

Don't try and dodge the issue - We're talking about Pluto here, damnit! /s :-)

18 posted on 06/22/2006 4:32:08 AM PDT by rhombus
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By Golly,

If I were Pluto, I would just take my moons and leave the Solar System!

No way would I stay around and be the Joe Leiberman of the Universe!

:o)


19 posted on 06/22/2006 4:32:21 AM PDT by Rhetorical pi2
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"One possible resolution to the debate is for new categories of planet to be introduced. Mercury, Venus, the Earth and Mars would be "rocky planets"."

I move that we rename these planets, respectively, 'Rocky I, Rocky II, Rocky III, and Rocky IV.
20 posted on 06/22/2006 4:33:04 AM PDT by Hegemony Cricket (Rugged individualists of the world, unite!)
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